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Book Review
Roma medievale: Il volto perduto della città
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 290–91
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Doherty, Hugh (Doherty, Hugh)
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Roma medievale: Il volto perduto della città Edited by Marina Righetti and Anna Maria D’Achille. 300 pp. incl. 310 col. ills. (De Luca Editori d’Arte, Rome, 2022), €48. ISBN 978–88–6557–531–4. | :
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2. Detail of Fig.3.
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of the 13th century. Silk embroidered with gold thread, 140 by 325 cm. (Museo della Cattedrale, Anagni).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pilgrim. France, probably Limoges, 13th century. Embossed and gilded copper, 13.7 by 6 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Fracta Doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 291–2
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de Blaauw, Sible L. (de Blaauw, Sible L.)
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Fracta Doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome By Julian Gardner. 140 pp. incl. 35 col. + b. & w. ills. (Viella, Rome, 2022), €29. ISBN 979–1–25469–018–5. | :
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Additions to Ter Brugghen in Italy: ‘Christ bound to the column’ and ‘St John the Baptist in the wilderness’
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 229–41
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Gash, John (Gash, John)
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1. Christ bound to the column, here attributed to Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1612–14 or c.1619–20. Oil on canvas, 282 by 199 cm. (Private collection).
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10. Sleeping Mars, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1625/29. Oil on panel, 106.5 by 92.8 cm. (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).
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11. Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1625. Oil on canvas, 154.9 by 102.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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12. Christ at the column, by Guido Reni. c.1604. Oil on canvas, 192.7 by 109 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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13. Flagellation of Christ, by Agostino Ciampelli. c.1594–96. Fresco. (S. Prassede, Rome).
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14. Supposed fragment of the column of Christ’s flagellation. Black marble, height 63 cm. (S. Prassede, Rome).
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15. Calling of St Matthew, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1617/18. Oil on canvas, 153.5 by 185 cm. (Musée de l’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre).
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16. Beheading of St John the Baptist, here attributed to Hendrick ter Brugghen and assistants. ?1610/19. Oil on canvas, 167.6 by 217.8 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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17. Mucius Scaevola before Porsena, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, c.1618/19. Oil on canvas, 183 by 222 cm. (Private collection).
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18. Adoration of the shepherds, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1612–14, or later. Oil on canvas, 160.4 by 208 cm. (Spier Collection, London).
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19. St John the Baptist in the wilderness, here attributed to Hendrick ter Brugghen. 1610s. Oil on canvas, 64.5 by 86.5 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Flagellation of Christ, by Caravaggio. 1607/10. Oil on canvas, 286 by 213 cm. (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples).
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20. Supper at Emmaus, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, ?1616. Oil on canvas, 160.3 by 188.3 cm. (Toledo Museum of Art).
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3. Denial of St Peter, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. 1620s. Oil on canvas, 132.3 by 178 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
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4. Denial of St Peter, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. c.1612–14 or c.1619–20. Oil on canvas, 288 by 190 cm. (Spier Collection, London).
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5. Christ before the High Priest Caiaphas, by Gerrit van Honthorst. c.1617/18. Oil on canvas, 272 by 183 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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6. Liberation of St Peter, by Gerrit van Honthorst. c.1616–18. Oil on canvas, 129 by 179 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
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7. Detail of Fig.1, showing Christ’s head.
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8. Detail of Fig.1, showing Christ’s loincloth.
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9. Dives and Lazarus, by Hendrick ter Brugghen. 1625. Oil on canvas, 168.2 by 207.3 cm. (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).
Article
A Safavid ambassadress in Rome: the last testament of Teresa Sampsonia Shirley
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 218–27
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Brown-Hedjazi, Alexandria (Brown-Hedjazi, Alexandria)
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1. Last testament of Teresa Sampsonia Shirley, showing the witness signatures and seals. 1668. (Archivio di Stato di Roma, 30 Notai Capitolini, Officio 23, 1668 Maggio, fol.279r; Photograph the author).
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10. A lady called Teresia Sampsonia Shirley, by John Hoskins. 1620s. Watercolour on vellum. (Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Teresa, or Teresia Sampsonia, Lady Shirley, by Anthony Van Dyck. c.1622. Oil on canvas, 214 by 129 cm. (Petworth House; © NTPL; photograph Derrick E. Witty).
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3. Sir Robert Shirley, by Anthony Van Dyck. c.1622. Oil on canvas, 214 by 129 cm. (Petworth House; © NTPL; photograph Derrick E. Witty).
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4. Pre-printed template for visitors to the hospital adjoining S. Maria Egiziaca, Rome. 1664. (Archivio del Pontificio Collegio Armeno, fondo S. Maria Egiziaca, Rome, Giustificativi dei pagamenti 1656–1673; courtesy Pontificio Collegio Armeno; photograph C. Santus).
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6. Frontispiece from Girolamo Rocchi: Funerale della Signora Sitti Maani Gioerida della Valle, Rome 1627. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven).
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7. Sketch of Lady Shirley, by Anthony van Dyck. 1622. Pen and brown ink on paper, 19.9 by 15.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
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9. Detail of Fig.1, rotated 180 degrees, showing the wax seal attached to Sampsonia’s last testament. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. Tombstone of Sampsonia and Robert Shirley, S. Maria della Scala, Rome. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of Fig.5, showing the Safavid Rampant Lion. (Photograph the author).
Book Review
Memoria in Stein: Das römische Wandgrabmal der Frührenaissance
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 64-5
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Muijtjens, Philip (Muijtjens, Philip)
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Memoria in Stein: Das römische Wandgrabmal der Frührenaissance By Michael Kühlenthal. 2 vols, 894 pp. incl. 907 col. + b. & w. ills. (Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2024), €285. ISBN 978–3–7774–3054–6. | :
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2. Tomb of Cardinal Antonio Martinez de Chávez, by Antonio Filarete and Isaia da Pisa, with later alterations by Francesco Borromini. After 1447. Marble. (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome).
Short Notice
Stefano Tofanelli’s ‘Deification of Aeneas by Venus’ rediscovered
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 29-31
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Shorter Notice by:
Cerchi, Alessio (Cerchi, Alessio)
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1. Deification of Aeneas by Venus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1794. Oil on canvas, 165.5 by 157.5 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Apollo and Cyparissus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1792. Oil on canvas. (Villa Mansi, Segromigno; photograph the author).
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3. Apotheosis of Romulus before the gods of Olympus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1790. Oil on canvas, 208 by 318 cm. (Palazzo Altieri, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Hebe giving drink to the eagle of Jupiter, by Gavin Hamilton. c.1767. Oil on canvas, 127 by 94 cm. (Stanford University Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Guercino: L’era Ludovisi a Roma
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 43-6
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Stone, David M. (Stone, David M.)
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Guercino: L’era Ludovisi a Roma Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome 31st October 2024–26th January 2025 | :
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13. Erminia finding the wounded Tancred, by Guercino. 1618– 19. Oil on canvas, 185 by 145 cm. (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
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14. Installation view of Guercino: L’era Ludovisi a Roma at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2024, showing the Ludovisi Ares. Roman, 2nd century CE. Marble, height 156 cm. (Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome); and Chariot of Venus, by Pietro da Cortona. 1622–23. Tempera on canvas, 106 by 203 cm. (Capitoline Museums, Rome; exh. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).
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15. Installation view of Guercino: L’era Ludovisi a Roma at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2024, showing a facsimile of Guercino’s St Chrysogonus in Glory, printed by Factum Arte, Madrid. Height 4.8 metres.
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Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna: its patron, material and meaning
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1123–1139
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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1. The Bruges Madonna in situ in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges. (Photograph the author).
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10. Virgin and Child, by Benedetto da Maiano. Before 1497, completed 1575. Marble, height 140 cm. (Oratorio della Misericordia, Florence).
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11. Detail of the Barbadori Altarpiece, by Filippo Lippi. 1438. Tempera on panel. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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13. Virgin and Child, by Gentile da Fabriano. 1425. Fresco. (Orvieto Cathedral; photograph Jeff Cotton).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing left hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph Jeff Cotton).
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15. Detail of Fig.2, showing the hands of the Virgin and Child. (Photograph the author).
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16. Virgin and Child, by Tino da Camaino. 1320–21. Marble, height 78 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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18. Studies for the Apostles, Battle of Cascina, the Bruges Madonna and an architectural element, by Michelangelo. c.1503–04. Black chalk, dark brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 27.3 by 26.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
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19. Detail of Fig.18 (top right of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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2. Madonna and Child (the Bruges Madonna), by Michelangelo. 1504–05. Marble, height 128 cm. (Church of Our Lady, Bruges; Bridgeman Images).
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20. Detail of Fig.18 (centre of sheet), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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21. Detail of Fig.18 (top of left-hand edge), showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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22. Detail of Fig.18 (centre and bottom of left-hand edge), showing studies for the Bruges Madonna.
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23. Three studies of nude men and the Virgin and Child, by Michelangelo. c.1504–05. Black chalk, dark and light brown ink, pen and lead point on paper, 31.5 by 27.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
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24. Tomb of Pieter Moscron. 1829, with original sixteenth-century brass coats-of-arms. (Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Church of Our Lady, Bruges; photograph Brit Vanraepenbusch).
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25. Detail of Fig.23, showing a study for the Bruges Madonna.
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26. Detail of Fig.1, showing the Moscron coat-of-arms, here attributed to Joost Aerts and Jan de Smet. c.1558–65. (Photograph the author).
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27. Detail of Fig.1, showing the 17th-century swag above the central niche. (Photograph the author).
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3. Margaret of York and Mary of Burgundy kneeling before a white statue of St Anne, fol.2v of the Register of the Guild of St Anne, by Circle of Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy. c.1476. Gold and bodycolour on vellum, height 33 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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4. White Virgin of Jean de Berry. French, c.1400. Marble, height 146 cm. (Bourges Cathedral; Alamy Stock Photo).
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5. Detail of a cast of the Bruges Madonna, showing the different treatment of the front and back of the base. 1871. Plaster. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph the author).
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6. Detail of Fig.2, showing the chisel marks on the base. (Photograph the author).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, seen from the left. (Photograph the author).
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8. Detail of Fig.2. (Photograph the author).
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9. Detail of Judith and Holofernes, by Donatello. c.1456. Bronze. (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Photo Scala, Florence).
Western art unattributed:
17. Our Lady of Leuven. Netherlandish, 13th century (reworked 1442). Polychromed and gilded wood and rock crystal, height 160 cm. (Church of St Peter, Leuven).
Book Review
American Latium: American Artists and Travelers in and around Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 884–6
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Hornsby, Clare (Hornsby, Clare)
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American Latium: American Artists and Travelers in and around Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour Edited by Christopher M.S. Johns, Tommaso Manfredi and Karin Wolfe. 303 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, 2023), €45. ISBN 978–88–97610–37–3. | :
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5. Torre d’Astura, by John Gadsby Chapman. Oil on canvas, 35.5 by 17.7 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
The Allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 853–5
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Mackelaitė, Austėja (Mackelaitė, Austėja)
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The Allure of Rome: Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City Kulturforum, Berlin 26th April–4th August | :
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10. Composite capital and Colosseum, by Maarten van Heemskerck. c.1532–36. Pen and brown ink over a preliminary drawing in lead stylus, 13.6 by 21.1 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Kulturforum, Berlin).
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8. View of the Forum Romanum, by Maarten van Heemskerck. c.1532–36. Preliminary drawing in lead stylus, pen and brown ink, greybrown wash, 21.6 by 55.5 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Kulturforum, Berlin).
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9. Various antique studies, by Maarten van Heemskerck. c.1532–36. Red chalk, 13.4 by 21.3 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Kulturforum, Berlin).
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